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" ... predecessors have done; while to the nobly born it seems a reproach not to reach at least the goal set them by their ancestors. And thus it nearly always happens that both in the profession of arms and in other worthy pursuits the most famous men... "
The Book of the Courtier - Page 16
by conte Baldassarre Castiglione - 1903 - 439 pages
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The Absence of Grace: Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy ...

Harry Berger - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 292 pages
...pursuits, those who are most distinguished are men of noble birth, because nature has implanted in everything that hidden seed which gives a certain force and quality of its own essence to all that springs from it, making it like itself" (i.i4; S, 28). "Grazia" first appears in i.i4 about halfway...
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